Rachel Kelly interview in the Telegraph

Rachel Kelly: ‘I tried to be perfect. Then I dropped all the plates’
Rachel Kelly was the model wife, mother and society hostess, yet she nearly lost her sanity through depression. As her new book tells, it was the healing power of poetry that saved her

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Rachel Kelly

Rachel Kelly

Rachel Kelly is a former Times journalist who is now a mental health campaigner, public speaker, and writer.  In her early thirties, Rachel was diagnosed with serious depression and subsequently suffered two major depressive episodes. These two episodes have become the defining events of h...More about Rachel Kelly